An Analysis of Cognitive Reference Points for Lexical Inferencing in English Reading Discourse
Cognitive reference point is a basic cognitive ability of humans.Lexical inferencing is a strategy that readers use context or background knowledge to acquire the meaning of unfamiliar words.Readers'understanding of discourses requires lexical inferencing strate-gies,and the use of which relies on the cognitive reference point model.On the basis of explaining cognitive reference points,the study fo-cuses on analyzing the vocabulary reasoning strategies used by readers in the discourse reading.Then,it sums up several cognitive ways serving as reference points,and the feasibility of the strategy is proved with examples,in order to provide valuable insights for reading and vocabulary teaching.
English readinglexical inferencingcognitive reference points
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